National Broadband Ireland : implementation and progress

NBI will be installing their own infrastructure in locations where open-eir doesn't exit.

If this is in the Monard area I'd say it's likely the poles don't all connect up in an ideal manner as Monard has been on the Oola Exchange for a long time now separate from further into Tipp Town.

I’m due to be connected between Jan - Mar 22 but surveying is yet to be completed going by the NBI website. Going by people’s experiences from start to finish, does it seem likely I’ll be connected in this timeline?

Hello all,

We were away for a few days there,just arrived home to find some new additions to our pole.Not familiar with the black box in Pole 1.

What does all these additions mean.....I feel we are soooooo close now to install????

So I live in the Lusk (co Dublin) intervention area and the NBI Map is saying go live between April and June 2022. The map also states that surveying is underway and yesterday we recieved a leaflet stating High Speed Fibre Broadband is on it's way. I'm taking all of this as positives and that we might actually get braodband during Q2 next year. Eir have just gone live with 5G in the area so I am curretnly benefiting from 40-60mbps which is a remarkable improvement on the 3-12 mbps I was getting with 3 (3 broadband now being used in the car :)). Anyone else who has had thier broadband go live, is there a correlation/timeline from leaflet drop to go live? The NBI Fibre Cables have been 500m from our house for the past 3.5 years!!

I presume you mean Eir fibre cables? NBI cables definitely weren't around 3.5 years ago. WRT to go-live, I think every DA that was due to go-live at various points this year has been pushed once if not more. Our DA (Tipperary), is currently set for November-December 21. The first NBI surveyor appeared outside our gate in the middle of July last year. So in theory you're look at ~ 18 months from when you first see NBI crews on the road, to connection.The fibre was only just put on the poles outside our house on Monday last week, so there's still the installation of DPs and splicing,etc. to be done. Also given that the timeframe for availability is November->December, the 90 day pre-order window should have opened on Aug 3rd , and needless to say, that hasn't happened. Technically I could be waiting until October 2nd (90 days before Dec. 31st) for pre-order.

Which is all a long way of saying: it's roughly 18 months for my DA, but YMMV!

Pringle trying to save his seat at the next election.

Id say 50% of the country is just pending.

June next year? Jeez they announced that they started surveying around letterkenny last october on twitter. No chance for the rest of the county for at least 2 years lol. Probably 3 for me since they'll have to do Ballybofey first.

Yikes. That's worrying. There should be ballpark month ranges at least. Which area are you?

Not sure who's the worst and best in the county league table but these two stood out.

Percentage of premises at stage ‘Survey Planned’ or further.*

Offaly : 22.9%

Kerry : 64.9%

*Using the NBI townlands data and the DECC premises data.

I was wondering how the individual ISPs were going to ramp up their installation crews to meet the demand of entire DAs going live. I realize this is out of NBIs control (unless being certified as an NBI reseller has obligations on how fast an ISP can get a customer up an running from the time of pre-order / order), but the ISPs should have anticipated this. They've had long enough.

Sorry HD, all boards alerts going into spam recently so didnt see this.

No I'm still at "coming soon" on the NBI Eircode checker.. No Secto crew out this way for the past 2 weeks so I imagine this leg of the DA is now tested. I'm still on Aug-Oct install prediction.

Sorry but this man has been in the Dail since 2011 and done diddly squat for broadband rollout in Donegal - him and all the others who have been in there for years have no credibility banging drums about it now.

He produced a pretty good response (12 pages) to the DCENR NBP consultation in 2015. He was advocating 100% fibre and State ownership (by the ESB) at the time.

There's only so much you can do as an independent in opposition.